Rahv, Philip

Rahv, Philip

▪ American critic
born March 10, 1908, Kupin, Ukraine, Russian Empire
died Dec. 22, 1973, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.

      Ukrainian-born American critic who was cofounder (1933) with William Phillips of The Partisan Review, a journal of literature and social thought.

      Rahv emigrated to the United States in 1922 and contributed to The New Masses, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New Leader. He wrote Fourteen Essays on Literary Themes (1949; enlarged, 1957). He edited many books, including The Partisan Reader (1946, with Phillips), The Discovery of Europe: The Story of the American Experience in the Old World (1947), Literature in America (1958), Modern Occasions (1966), and collections of short novels by Henry James, Leo Tolstoy, and other writers.

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